Align text on an equals sign in vim

Question

I tend to align code on equal signs for better readability. From this:

$ = jQuery.sub()
Survey = App.Survey
Sidebar = App.Sidebar
Main = App.Main
         


        

Answer 1

I believe this is easily done with the Tabular plugin. Here it is in action.

Select the range in Visual mode (not actually necessary), and do:

:Tabularize /=

The plugin can actually find the correct range on its own often, without needing to select it visually or specify a range to the ex command.